Chicken Invaders

Key points

Has problems running on Windows 8 and above. See "Low frame-rate"

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Developer website

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\^{[Note 2]}

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Use dgVoodoo 2, stretches.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Use dgVoodoo 2, stretches significantly.
4K Ultra HD		Use dgVoodoo 2.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Use dgVoodoo 2.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use dgVoodoo 2.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		27 FPS cap
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Supports Dolby surround.
Subtitles		All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		`Alt + Tab` crashes the game, using a DirectX wrapper can alleviate the issue.

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play		2

DirectDraw emulation is broken in Windows 8 and later

Use a DirectDraw wrapper^[2]

Notes

Alternatively, a normal DirectX wrapper can be used to get the same results.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

↑ UVE engine build: UveDX7.NET (assumption)^[1]
↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

Developers

	InterAction Studios
Engines
	Ultra VGA Engine^{[Note 1]}
Release dates
Windows	1999
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Shooter
Art styles	Pre-rendered graphics, Cartoon
Themes	Space
Series	Chicken Invaders